East Lothian
Web developer in East Lothian, from Musselburgh to Dunbar
WebLothian is a web designer and developer building and looking after websites for businesses across East Lothian, from Musselburgh on the Edinburgh boundary to Dunbar at the far end of the coast. It is run by Ben Harvie from Portobello, two miles from the county line, and he grew up in East Lothian, which is why the county is in the name.
Towns
Towns in East Lothian the work covers
Nearest first, in straight-line miles from the desk in Portobello. A town with a page of its own is a link.
- Musselburgh 2 mi
- Prestonpans 5 mi
- Tranent 6 mi
- Longniddry 9 mi
- Pencaitland 11 mi
- Gullane 12 mi
- Haddington 13 mi
- North Berwick 17 mi
- East Linton 18 mi
- Dunbar 23 mi
Local
What the work looks like in East Lothian
East Lothian trade follows the coast and the A1. Musselburgh, Prestonpans and Tranent are independents and trades serving their own towns and the edge of Edinburgh. Longniddry, Gullane and North Berwick live on golf, visitors and holiday lets, where a site has to take a booking and look the part. Haddington is the county town, with professional firms and the farm businesses and food producers around it, and East Linton and Dunbar mix the two. Across all of it the common problem is a site built years ago that does not load on a rural signal, and a Google Business Profile nobody has claimed.
Services
Every service, across East Lothian
The same six services as everywhere else, each with a page of its own that says what it does, how the cost works and when it is a waste of your money.
Website creation or redesign in East Lothian
A website for an East Lothian business is usually read on a phone with one bar of signal somewhere between Haddington and Gifford, so it is built to be small and fast first and pretty second. Holiday lets, golf and food businesses get the booking and ordering pages built in rather than bolted on.
More about Website creation or redesignBooking and reminder software in East Lothian
Booking systems for the North Berwick and Gullane visitor trade, appointment reminders for the salons and clinics of Musselburgh and Tranent, and MOT and service reminders for the garages along the A1, all going out by WhatsApp and text.
More about Booking and reminder softwareAI for your business in East Lothian
An assistant on the site that answers the questions a visitor to East Lothian asks at ten at night: availability, directions, whether the dog is welcome, what time the kitchen closes. It answers from the business, not from the internet.
More about AI for your businessSEO and Google Business Profile in East Lothian
Local SEO in East Lothian is won town by town: a search for a joiner in Dunbar or a cafe in North Berwick is decided by whose Google Business Profile is complete and whose site actually says the town name in a sentence. Both are set up properly as part of the work.
More about SEO and Google Business ProfileWebsite security in East Lothian
East Lothian holiday lets and shops that take payment online carry customer data and need a site that is kept up to date, backed up and behind a proper security certificate. A security check is often the first and cheapest job for a site that has been left alone for a few years.
More about Website securityManagement and maintenance in East Lothian
Year-round management for East Lothian businesses whose site was built by somebody who has since stopped answering: updates, backups, hosting (where your site lives) and renewing the web address, from a developer who is a short drive down the A1 rather than a ticket queue.
More about Management and maintenance
Questions
Questions people ask
Who builds websites in East Lothian?
WebLothian does, from Portobello, two miles from Musselburgh and twenty three from Dunbar. Ben Harvie grew up in East Lothian, so the county is in the business name and a first meeting can happen in your shop, farm office or kitchen. The cost is kept affordable on purpose and the consultation is free.
How much does a website cost for an East Lothian business?
Every job is quoted in writing after a free consultation, so the number is known before anything starts, and WebLothian keeps it affordable on purpose. A small site for a Tranent trade is a smaller quote than a booking site for a North Berwick holiday let, and both are a fraction of what an agency in Edinburgh would charge for the same work.
Do you work with holiday lets, golf and visitor businesses?
Yes, and the coast from Longniddry to North Berwick has a lot of them. Those sites need to take a booking, show availability and look right to somebody in another country deciding where to stay, and all of that is built as part of the site rather than rented from a third party.
Which East Lothian towns do you come out to?
All of them inside twenty five miles of Portobello, which is the whole county: Musselburgh, Prestonpans, Tranent, Longniddry, Pencaitland, Gullane, Haddington, North Berwick, East Linton and Dunbar. Musselburgh and Haddington have pages of their own because people search for them by name.
The honest answer
When not to bother
If your business is seasonal and the website only matters for twelve weeks a year, build the smallest site that takes a booking and spend the rest on the Google Business Profile, which is free. A big site for a small season is money spent on the wrong thing.
Free consultation
Talk to a web developer in East Lothian
The consultation is free and there is no pitch at the end of it, because how the cost works is already explained on this site and every job is quoted in writing.
East Lothian is where Ben grew up, and East Lothian businesses get the heavily discounted local rate: the drive is short, the meetings are in person, and helping the county's firms keep up is the whole point.